Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Retention depends on purpose, account duration and other needs
DeepSeek retains data as long as necessary for services and other policy purposes, contractual or legal obligations, legitimate business interests such as improving and securing services, and legal claims. Periods vary with data amount, type, sensitivity, purposes and law. For service delivery it keeps account, input and payment data while you have an account; violation-related data may be kept as necessary to handle the violation. When no longer required, DeepSeek and its providers destroy, delete, erase or anonymize it as law permits or requires. No single fixed retention period is stated.
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We retain Personal Data for as long as necessary to provide our Services and for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We also retain Personal Data when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations, when we have a legitimate business interest to do so (such as improving and developing our Services and enhancing their safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defense of legal claims.
The retention periods will be different depending on the amount, type and sensitivity of Personal Data, the purposes for which we use the Personal Data and any legal requirements, etc. For example, when we process your Personal Data to provide you with the Services, we keep this Personal Data for as long as you have an account. This Personal Data includes your account Personal Data, input and payment Personal Data. If you violate any of our terms, policies or guidelines, we may keep your Personal Data as necessary to process the violation.
When the Personal Data collected is no longer required by us, we and our service providers will perform the necessary procedures for destroying, deleting, erasing, or converting it into an anonymous form as permitted or required under applicable laws.
Cross-references
- contrast (model-proposed): Settings let you copy or delete chat history — contrast: Settings permit chat-history deletion, while the policy separately retains data for necessary service, legal, business and claims purposes. The deletion control is not a universal immediate-erasure promise.
- qualifies (model-proposed): Deleting an account ends your ability to restore its content — qualifies: Inability to reactivate or retrieve deleted-account content does not eliminate the separate stated retention purposes.